"You rule the world, girls!" or "Sex and the City" is released
For six seasons we were shown how four friends are looking for their happiness. The path was thorny: everything that came across - unpretentious sailors, boring intellectuals, laborers and millionaires, went into the furnace of the indefatigable passions of four women. Men huddled in the corners of this feminine universe. Of course, because of men, they fell into depression, went crazy with happiness, drank antidepressants and, for joy, drank Cosmopolitan cocktail to the point of fainting. In this female world, men were welcome, but - guests, an occasion for sexual and more elevated emotions, but - only an excuse. They forced women to experience feelings, put them in a variety of positions, so that their friends could then fully discuss all this at a friendly table.
The essence of the series (the finale of which is released as a separate film in all cinemas of the country) was not sex, not men, and not a big city. Its meaning is female friendship, the only thing that has not been interrupted for all six seasons, the only thing that has never been questioned. Seeing how regally and quickly her friends solve her problems, the main character of the film, Carrie, exclaims: “You rule the world, girls!”
The grand success of the series was discussed even by scientists. There is a study on the subject of "Sex and the City" - "The female orgasm as a way to achieve power in the era of third wave feminism." It turns out that while we are here dealing with the remnants of house building, feminism has already covered the civilized countries with the third wave, and four girlfriends who consume men with appetite have become its banner. Evaluating this series, the author is ready to join the words of a very famous young director, who stated with horror and interest: "Today's world is vaginocentric." The life of Samantha, Miranda, Charlotte and Carrie leaves no doubt about this. A man is something so indistinct, incomprehensible, in a word - very relative, but a woman is an absolute concept.
She is the measure of all things, but this next young man (or an uncle, or an elderly gentleman) - well, let him come in for a minute ... ... However, the friends grew old, the irony diminished, the cycle of feelings tired and mocking intellectuals pulled - scary to say - to family values. The wedding gowns they once tried on with laughter are now almost awe-inspiring. The path of these women is almost the same as that done by the culture of postmodernism: through endless relativity - to the search for the only correct option, through irony - to pathos, through deconstruction - to a clear, intelligible worldview.
The eternal journey through other people's beds ended with the affirmation of family values. An infinite number of men caused a longing for the only one. The entire last film, the main character for a long time, but steadily goes to marriage. The vulgarity of joining the married majority, on the one hand, and the dream of quiet happiness, on the other: Carrie completely outlives this dialectic and makes an irrevocable choice.
It is pointless to make aesthetic claims to films of this kind - witty, not claiming the title of high art. But still. Of course, the viewer will have the feeling that he met with old friends, and therefore it’s a sin not to cope with how they are doing, and not even listen to a boring answer. But everything that was so charmingly easy in the series becomes boring here: both endless discussions and deliberate delays of the final - when everything is already clear to the viewer, and the author needs to insert a couple more jokes on the theme of the hardships and joys of family life. Family life with betrayals and quarrels is shown on the examples of other couples. Carrie understands that the same thing awaits her, but she chooses intimacy. And another sex begins in the big city - with a legal husband. Home and family are shown here with all the positive and negative charge that these concepts contain. Perhaps this is a sharp difference between this film and a huge amount of American film production, where in the finale all family members join hands, an endless whisper of I love you is heard and unrestrained muttering like: “We have each other”, “Here they are, our children, look how similar they are to us" and so on...
As Leo Tolstoy wrote, all novels end with a wedding, but in vain: it’s like ending a work on an episode in which robbers attack a person in a dark forest.
In the new film about four friends, the wedding is an episode before a long life together, a rapprochement that, obviously, will bring not only happiness. But the girlfriends, tired of sex, feeling the approach of old age, make their sadly happy choice.
